Aug 2nd 2017
This Week in Google 416
Mr. Nutter Butter Has a Message for You
Hosted by
Leo Laporte,
Jeff Jarvis
Is privacy just a fad?
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Matt Cutts,
Kevin Marks
US Digital Service - making government better. Alphabet Q2 earnings up, stocks down. Chrome's ad blocker is available to devs. Not everybody likes Google's plan to track offline sales. Is privacy a fad? Facebook hits 2 billion users. Bitcoin splits, and miners revolt. ACLU supports John Oliver. Millenials confused by discovery of broadcast TV.
- Jeff's Number: $600/head SV restaurant with gold-flecked steaks
- Matt Cutt's Thing: Hack the Pentagon!
- Kevin Marks' Stuff: IndieWeb.org, Liberty Foundation, extra thumb prosthetic
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Links
- Alphabet rakes in a $26 billion quarter, but the stock is sliding
- Google Chrome's native ad blocker is now live in Canary and Dev builds
- Our latest quality improvements for Search
- Russian Twitter propaganda dashboard
- EPIC asks FTC to investigate Google's offline shopping tracker
- 'Anonymous' browsing data can be easily exposed, researchers reveal
- The Birth And Death Of Privacy: 3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images
- Google announces Search Console redesign, showcases two upcoming reports and tools
- Google and MIT’s new machine learning algorithms retouch your photos before you take them
- Kurzweil is writing your emails
- Vic Gundotra throws FB shade on his old employer
- Vic Gundotra is wrong about Android photography | Android Central
- Google’s cord cutter app YouTube TV reaches 2 million downloads
- Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna
- With 2 billion users and counting, Facebook’s profit and revenue soar
- Twitter stock plunges as it fails to deliver user growth
- SEC Asks Twitter Why It Doesn't Disclose Daily User Number - Bloomberg
- World’s Richest Person Escapes Scrutiny From His Own Paper—and Its Rivals
- Bitcoin splits in 2
- Bitcoin Cash is now the 3rd most valuable cryptocurrency with market value of ~$7.7B
- Photos: Life inside of China’s massive and remote bitcoin mines
- Amazon halts Blu phone sales over 'potential security issue' | ZDNet
- Ex-FCC Chair Tom Wheeler Dismantles The Case For Abandoning Net Neutrality
- Hilarious ACLU brief supporting John Oliver
- Hack the Pentagon
- US Digital Service application page
- Homebrew Website Club next week
- Liberty Foundation
- an extra thumb prosthetic